The 1918 “Spanish” Flu killed more people than died in WW1: for every soldier killed in combat, three died of that flu. Calogero Cumbo explores why, in the middle of our current pandemic, we have forgotten that previous one.
The world as we’d like to imagine it once this pandemic is over. What are the things we want to let go of from this time and what are the things we’d like to keep?
As GDP plummets, resource use exploitation and pollution declines, emissions fall and non-human life is able to re-inhabit spaces through diminished human activity, it might appear that environmentalists and degrowthers have cause to celebrate. Yet it is important to distinguish the current crisis from an … read more.
Vivian grew up in the West IsIand and graduated from McGill University’s School of Environment with ecological field experience at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. She is a musician, singer\songwriter, and photographer as well as an environmentalist and permaculturalist. Vivian lives now in the Eastern … read more.
Most religions claim an insight into ultimate reality, which they call God, but we Unitarian Universalists, being creedless, make no such claim. Or do we?
In our seventh principle, we affirm the existence of the interdependent web of all existence, of which we are a part.
It is wonderful to welcome Calogero, … read more.
Lisa Mintz founded Sauvons la falaise, whose primary mission is to ensure protection of the St. Jacques Escarpment Eco-territory, and connection with other existing green spaces including the future Meadowbrook park.
Falaise St-Jacques Escarpment
She will discuss the history and biology of the falaise as well … read more.
Marlene Hale, also known as Maluh, her childhood nickname in Wet’suwet’en, the northern Athabaskan language of her people, was born in Smithers, British Columbia, at the foot of the Hudson Bay Mountains. She learned to cook at a young age, and as it developed into … read more.
Jessica Burpee writes: The talk will be about my experience giving an Ecotourism course in Costa Rica, where our group stayed at an indigenous village and learned how they built their ecotourism lodge from the ground up, building on their inherent worth and dignity. As a … read more.
How can we work for environmental justice and put the brakes on climate change without first, imagining a different world? Rev. Nicoline will speak about how finding ways to reduce her carbon footprint has been a central part of her personal faith journey as a … read more.
Using Education to Create a more Sustainable University
Our speaker George McCourt writes: For the last ten years I have been involved in helping McGill University develop a long term plan to make the university a more sustainable institution at the local level and … read more.
